One Boy By: Laura Vaccaro Seeger

One Boy is simply a book that takes you through the number one through ten. The coolest part about this book is that there are little square pieces of every other page missing, so that when flipping to the next page a new word is created. There is even a square cut out of the center of the cover of the book. The illustrations are very simple which I think is very good, because the audience that this book is intended for is children of a younger age. I like how every page is completely colored. There is no extra space on any of the pictures. On the last page of the book there are pictures of each page that were in the book. The illustrator has given the illusion that each page has been taped to the wall by the one boy who has painted all the pictures. It is such a neat ending to the book. I did not expect to see that the one boy from the beginning of the book had painted all of the pictures I was reading. It was a great surprise which I love!